Imagining war and peace in eighteenth-century Britain, 1690-1820
Ranging over political, moral, religious, artistic and literary developments in eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln explains in a clear and engaging style how the 'civilizing process' and the rise of humanitarianism, far from inhibiting war, helped to make it acceptable to a modern...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | Ranging over political, moral, religious, artistic and literary developments in eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln explains in a clear and engaging style how the 'civilizing process' and the rise of humanitarianism, far from inhibiting war, helped to make it acceptable to a modern commercial society. In a close examination of a wide variety of illuminating examples, he shows how criticism of the terrible effects of war could be used to promote the nation's war-making. His study explores how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from the overseas violence they read about, and from the dire effects of war they encountered at home. It shows, too, how the first campaigning peace society, while promoting pacificism, drew inspiration from the prospects opened by imperial conquest. This volume is an important and timely call to rethink how we understand the cultural and moral foundations of imperial Britain |
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| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2024) The culture of war and civil society, from William III to George -- War and the culture of politeness : the case of The Tatler and The Spectator -- Sacrifice : heroism and mourning -- Sacrifice : Christian heroes -- War and the 'elevation' of the novel -- War and the 'science of man' -- Complicities in the novel -- Saving individual virtue -- Saving communal virtue -- The ideal of non-resistance -- A case study : Gibraltar |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781009366519 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009366519 |